Israel Zangwill was a prominent Anglo-Jewish writer often quoted in the British
press as a spokesman for Zionism and one of the earliest organizers of the
Zionist movement in Britain who visited Palestine as early as 1897.

"Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The pashalik of Jerusalem
is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having fifty-two
souls to the square mile, and not 25% of them Jews ..... [We] must be prepared
either to drive out by the sword the [Arab] tribes in possession as our
forefathers did or to grapple with the problem of a large alien population, mostly
Mohammedan and accustomed for centuries to despise us." (Expulsion Of The
Palestinians, p. 7- 10, and Righteous Victims,
p. 140)

In 1920, Israel Zangwill clearly acknowledged the existence of Palestinians,
but not as a people since they were not exploiting Palestine's resource. He
said:

"If the Lord Shaftesbury was literally inexact in describing Palestine as a
country without a people, he was essentially correct, for there is no Arab
people living in intimate fusion with the country, utilizing its resources and
stamping it with a characteristic impress: there is at best an Arab
encampment." (Expulsion Of The
Palestinians, p. 6)

Zangwill also wrote in an article published in "Voice Of Jerusalem" in 1920,
that Palestinians' cultural "backwardness" as a justification for the removal of
the population. He stated:

"We cannot allow the Arabs to block so valuable a piece of historic reconstruction
..... And therefore we must generally persuade them to 'trek.' After all, they
have all Arabia with its million square miles .... There is no particular reason
for the Arabs to cling to these few kilometers. 'To fold their tents and
silently steal away' is their proverbial habit: let them exemplify it
now." (Expulsion Of The
Palestinians, p. 14, and Righteous Victims,
p. 140)

In a public meeting in 1919 Zangwill made a remark about the Palestinian
Arabs:

"many are semi-nomad, they have given nothing to Palestine and are not entitled
to the rules of democracy." (Expulsion Of The
Palestinians, p. 14)